What does it say about our society that our female celebrities can be physically emulated to a high degree of accuracy with only wigs and makeup?

You’d need facial prostheses to accurately portray many of our male celebrities’ unique skeletal and skin formations, but it seems a lot of our “successful” women are indistinct, featureless, interchangeable faces plastered over with cosmetics and contorted into a small range of expressions.

I think this is a stab at approaching Kevin Aucoin’s amazing work in Face Forward, which I would say is far more effective. I find this makeup work very obvious and there is some strange photoshop/lighting work as well that is very distracting.

Her name is not Khaleesi. Her name is Daenerys of the House Targaryen, the First of Her Name, Queen of Meereen,Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men, Protector of the Realm, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Chains and Mother of Dragons.

It doesn’t make sense–really without photography and cinematography, the skills of the makeup artist would not be in high demand. A really exacting makeup job needs to hold up when photographed by a professional, under the best lighting conditions, using a medium format camera. Yes, in the age of photoshop, things can be airbrushed and cleaned up, but the makeup artist shouldn’t be adding to the photo editors workload-- the cosmetics need to hold up at some level.

And so, we have this makeup artist saying-- look what I can do, but the photography leaves a lot to the imagination.

Also, a good photographer understands light. You’d think the same understanding would be an important part of a makeup artist’s repertoire.